Peter Mayle Quotes
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
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It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.
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With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
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It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.
